Category Archives: BEDA

What I’m Reading – A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

I have revisited “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch” by Alesandr Solzhenitsyn and without in any way detracting from the suffering of those incarcerated in the Gulags, as I read it my mind seemed to be taken back to my days at boarding school. It wasn’t the punishments or the starvation or the [...]

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Earthquake in Italy

I was really shocked to see on the news that there had been another earthquake in Italy and, not only many casualties, but another medieval town destroyed. My knowledge of the geography of Italy seems very lacking. I thought it was a relatively stable geographical area apart from the volcanic area around the Bay of [...]

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Skype & Other Matters

Its been another fantastic day here in England or at least Lincolnshire and most of the day fairly warm. Things are looking up.
I’ve just finished a long conversation with a friend in London on Skype, the first time I’ve used the video facility and it is so superior to any of the other free services [...]

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